“An Implementor’s
Guide to SOA: Getting it Right” is now
available for sale at amazon.com. Seven contributing SOA expert authors
share their collective wisdom in the 100-page book that covers the
practical issues facing technologists when implementing a
service-oriented architecture (SOA).

“This book provides the needed clarity to the
confusion over when, where, why and how SOA efforts should begin,”
observed independent analyst Joe McKendrick.

The author/experts participating include:

Paul Butterworth

Hemant Ramachandra

Chief Technology Officer

Managing Director, Business Systems Integration

AmberPoint

BearingPoint

David Besemer

Jim Green

Chief Technology Officer

CEO

Composite Software

Composite Software

Hub Vandervoort

Jeff Schneider

Chief Technology Officer

Chief Executive Officer

Progress Software

MomentumSI

Luc Clément

Senior Director Product Management

Active Endpoints

and Co-Chairman

OASIS UDDI Specification Technical Committee

The book provides practical advice to those planning an SOA
implementation as well as those in the midst of implementing one.
Readers will learn how to avoid the most common pitfalls of SOA
implementations including designing for reuse and error handling,
understanding registry governance over services lifecycle, evaluating
different ESBs and their impact on the SOA infrastructure, managing
effective run-time governance, positively influencing the organizational
impacts of multiple technology teams creating different
modules/components that must work together, training internal SOA teams
for optimal effectiveness, and setting and measuring progress during
every stage of the SOA implementation.

To view a summary of each chapter, please use the following links:

»
Getting It Right

»
Designing Services

»
Registries and Repositories

»
Enterprise Service Buses

»
Runtime Management

»
Organizing For Success

»
Capability Development

»
Pulling It Together

A free web conference featuring the seven authors will be held on June
18 at 2 p.m. EDT. Joe McKendrick, independent analyst and expert author,
will open the web event with an overview of the current SOA landscape,
and then introduce each author, who will summarize his chapter’s
highlights. A Q&A session follows. For those unable to attend, the
conference will be recorded and made available for downloading from
soaguidebook.com.

For more information about the book and its authors, or to download the
web conference featuring the authors, visit: http://soaguidebook.com

The book may be purchased for US$19.75 plus tax from Amazon.com, using
the following link: http://www.amazon.com/Implementor-Guide-Service-Oriented-
Architecture/dp/0979930405/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=
1212173815&sr=1-1 (Due to its length, this URL may need to be
copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the
extra space if one exists.)

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